Judith Ingolfsson

She began to play violin at age three, and debuted as a soloist in Germany already at age eight. She studied with Jascha Brodsky at the Curtis Institute of Music. She then studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music under David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein.

Judith Ingolfsson won first prize at the 1998 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. She was also a prize winner at the 1998 Concert Artists Guild Competition[2] and the 1997 International Violin Competition "Premio Paganini".[3] In 1999 she was honored by National Public Radio as Debut Artist of the Year, and in 2001 received the Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award for her debut CD with works by Bloch, Rorem, Bach, and Wieniawski.

In 2008 Ingolfsson became Professor of Violin at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart . Since 2019, she has served as Professor of Violin at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.[4]

Ingolfsson is also a chamber musician and has collaborated with the Vogler, Avalon, and Miami String Quartets, the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, and the Ronen Chamber Ensemble.

She performs regularly with Vladimir Stoupel as the Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel.[5] Ingolfsson and Stoupel are the artistic directors of the festival “Aigues-Vives en Musiques”[6] in southern France, which they co-founded in 2009, as well as the festival “The Last Rose of Summer” in Berlin.[7]

• Official website
• Website of the Ingolfsson – Stoupel Duo
• Faculty Page at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University